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Posted in Writing/Reading on Feb 3rd, 2010
On Saturday, I took Laura Kalpakian’s Self-editing class at the community college. Her books on Amazon are here. I didn’t know who she was nor had I read any of her books. I usually try to read at least one book of an instructor prior to class but this time, I didn’t get to it.
Prior [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Jan 29th, 2010
I noticed that there seems to be a bit of talk on the Internet about how a writer of fiction is trained for the business end of the industry. There has also been a lot of talk about where the elite of the market wind up: control, points, quantity of books released a year. I’ve [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Jan 7th, 2010
In three days, I picked up and finished Lost Light by Michael Connelly. I read it because it was a NYTBS, says so right on the spine. I’ve been working on the subplot of my own first story so I paid close attention to his subplots.
Subplots can build story or character or both. The better [...]